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Read the passage excerpt from Rip van Winkle by Washington Irving: Times worse and worse with Rip van Winkle as years of matrimony ruled on a touch temper never mellows with age any sharp tongue it's only edge tool that grows in Keener by constant use for a long while he used to control himself on driven from home by frequenting kind of perpetual club of the sages philosophers and other Idol percentages of the village they held it sessions on a bench before a small inn, and designated by a rubicund portrait of his Majesty George the third. Here they used to sit in the shade of a long lazy summer stay talk listlessly over Village gossip or tell him I sleepy stories about nothing but it would have been worth any states spends money to have heard the profound discussions that sometimes took place when by chance and I'll newspaper fell into the hands from some passing traveler house only they would listen to the contents as rolled out by Derek van bummer the schoolmaster a dropper learned little man Who was not to be daunted by the most gigantic word in the dictionary and how safely they were deliberate upon public events some months after they had taken place.

How does this early description of the setting affect the text